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Threatening Electors Violates Federal Law. So Why Isn't Loretta Lynch Doing Anything About It?
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2016/12/threatening-electors-violates-federal-law ^

Posted on 12/17/2016 1:03:50 PM PST by DOC44

In Georgia and Idaho, the threats have been so extreme that the secretaries of state both released statements calling for the harassment to end. But the federal law enforcement agency that should be acting to stop these threats — the U.S. Department of Justice — has not done a thing. Section 11b of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. §10307) makes it a crime for anyone to “intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote.” While this has been applied in the past to ordinary, everyday voters in federal elections, the language does not limit it only to such voters. Electors who are casting their votes for president and vice president are also protected by Section 11b since the Electoral College is an essential part of the federal voting process. This is supported by Section 14(c) of the VRA, which says that “voting” includes “all action necessary to make a vote effective in any primary, special, or general election.” Obviously, the votes cast by Americans on Nov. 8 will not be effective if the electors they chose are intimidated from casting their votes in the Electoral College. Federal law (3 U.S.C. §7) requires electors to cast their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday of December, which this year is Dec. 19. These are recorded as “certificates of vote,” signed, sealed, and delivered by December 28 to the president of the Senate and the archivist of the United States (3 U.S.C. §11). Congress is required to meet on Jan. 6, 2017 in joint session to count the Electoral College votes (3 U.S.C. §15).

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; constructionism; constructionist; lorettalynch; scotus
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To: Paladin2

quite a contrast to Snowflake safe spaces. can’t even wear a Trump hat on a campus,and here the Rats are, literally threatening people....


41 posted on 12/17/2016 6:09:59 PM PST by 4Liberty (DEMOCRATS- Exporting Jobs, Importing Votes.)
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To: LookingUp

Also what is wrong with state police going after them.?
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They’ve probably been ordered to stand down. It’s rare that state and local law enforcement will act contrary to instructions from the Feds.


42 posted on 12/17/2016 6:11:05 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Make nice with your enemies and you will live to regret it.)
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To: SSS Two

It’s gone far beyond threats made in media interviews.

Many electors have reported getting threatening telephone calls, e-mails, letters, etc.

Why all of them don’t report the threats to the local police is beyond me. Maybe they don’t want their complaint to the local police to appear in their local newspapers. I don’t know.


43 posted on 12/17/2016 7:37:09 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 8, 2016..... Donald Trump schlongs Hillary Clinton. 306 Electoral Votes)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Many electors have reported getting threatening telephone calls, e-mails, letters, etc.

My point is that the Electors are only mentioning the alleged threats to the media. They aren't reporting them to law enforcement. Claims made to the media should not be acted upon. Note that most of the claims of assaults by "pro-Trump" perpetrators are made only to the media or to online platforms. I don't believe them, either.

If an Elector wants me to take his threat accusations seriously, the Elector must first take his own threat seriously. Report it to law enforcement or shut up.

44 posted on 12/17/2016 7:55:16 PM PST by SSS Two
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To: DOC44

This Video of Celebs Urging Electoral College to Change Their Votes is So Bad It’s Retroactively Why Trump Won

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3505868/posts


45 posted on 12/18/2016 3:05:32 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: Merry CHRISTmas, Happy Birthday JESUS CHRIST, suck it up buttercup you lost)
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To: DOC44
Somebody needs to start arresting these criminals for their own protection.

Maybe Sessions will have Lynch arrested......saw him at Trump's final Victory/Thank You tour stop yesterday and he's ready to enforce our laws....

46 posted on 12/18/2016 3:59:26 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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